Piet Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, 1927 All of Mondrian’s paintings are arrangements of very limited formal elements. He restricted himself to yellow, red, blue, black, and white, as well as straight lines and recto-linear shapes.  Reminiscent of Malevich’s style, but for very different reason; Malevich wanted to achieve a pure expression, and Mondrian was trying to create something universal. Everyone who looks at this sees the same thing – a logical arrangement of forms.

Piet Mondrian, Composition with Yellow, Red, and Blue, 1927

  • All of Mondrian’s paintings are arrangements of very limited formal elements. He restricted himself to yellow, red, blue, black, and white, as well as straight lines and recto-linear shapes. 
  • Reminiscent of Malevich’s style, but for very different reason; Malevich wanted to achieve a pure expression, and Mondrian was trying to create something universal. Everyone who looks at this sees the same thing – a logical arrangement of forms.
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during my first ever survey of western art class, my professor explained the difference between historians and art historians. historians, she said, were interested in old things. art historians, on the other hand, were interested in old things of quality. you don't hang garbage up on the walls of a museum; it has to be substantial and it has to mean something. so here you go; old things, made mostly by dudes long dead, of debatable degrees of quality but always with a constant level of importance. think of this as a deck of flash cards... sans the whole cards part.

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